Category: 5. History, Art and Culture

The country has the connotations and presents a typical urban layout of the typical medieval villages. The oldest document that speaks of the city Capalbio, is the Leonino Carolingia with which Charlemagne donated the...

The Theatre of the Rocks, which opened in 2003, is now a symbol of the National Park of the Metalliferous Hills, became part of the European Network of Geoparks recognized by UNESCO. It is...

In Santa Liberata, on the road leading to Porto Santo Stefano,we can see the remains of a large Roman villa, which belonged to the Roman family of Enobarbi Domitii and became imperial property under...

Maremma In the eighteenth century was dominated by pirates, malaria and an atmosphere of silence and death,so, ” San Paolo della croce” wanted to launch a “challenge” by building a convent which would have...

The history of Vetulonia begins between the X and XI centuries BC then in the final period of the Iron Age and the beginning of the Villanovan period. Here two distinct groups built their...

The fortress was built between the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century by the Spaniards, in the State Presidium, in the site of the St. Stephen’s Tower, built by the Sienese in the fifteenth...

Star- fort overlooking the azure of the Tyrrhenian Sea, a building so perfect as to seem fake that actually dates back to 1500. This is Forte Stella Porto Ercole, a fortification that was built...

The castle dates back to the twelfth century, when the settlement phenomenon known as “fortification” led to the flourishing of fortresses, monasteries and castles that characterized the Middle Ages not only in Maremma. Initially...

The installation of the original building, dating from the first century BC and second century A.D., are preserved in full perimeter walls, with circular towers. The turreted walls, built in imitation of the city’s...

Artificial gap in the rock , which flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea, at the foot of the hill Ansedonia. The emissary is artificial (called Channel T. ). Next to T. is the slit of the...